Career Decision-Making Profiles of Italian Adolescents

Journal of Career Assessment

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 375-389

  Ginevra, Maria Cristina ^a   Nota, Laura ^a   Soresi, Salvatore ^a   Gati, Itamar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

assessment; career decision making profiles; career indecision; Italian adolescents; structural validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868029631     PISSN: 10690727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1069072712448739     Document Type: Article

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